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Date:      Tue, 12 Oct 1999 18:45:48 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        mjacob@feral.com, Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: scsi tape driver wants an update 
Message-ID:  <25232.939746748@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Oct 1999 22:37:46 %2B0900." <380339AA.FB0D5719@newsguy.com> 

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In message <380339AA.FB0D5719@newsguy.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" writes:
>Matthew Jacob wrote:
>> 
>> This is a harmless message for the moment. I took a look at the new
>> make_dev stuff- it's more than a no-brainer to add because there's a lot
>> of stuff about supported device nodes, etc... I'll try and get back to
>> this after FreeBSDcon.
>
>Funny, phk's comments led me to believe it's actually easier to use
>make_dev() (!= makedev(), btw -- maybe you looked up the wrong
>one?).
>
>And, talking about phk, it is also my impression that it is his
>intent to push these changes as fast as he can. He gets strange at
>this time of the year, y'know... I think Jordan once posted an
>interesting explanation for this phenomenum. :-)

"This time of the year" == "This time in the release cycle"

If we want to have a somewhat clean line before 4.0 now is the time
to push it through, not after the code freeze.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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